so you have two billionaires speaking and the collateral damage is governor romney. so i think republicans are looking back at this and saying we, the party, lost control of the primary process meaning a billionaire or two, not the people. there are people out there saying this is the voes of tice people and it's wonderful to have people involved. this is one billionaire speaking to another billionaire or two billionaires attacking mitt romney and it's a very small conversation, but it clearly changed the race so that's one way where i think they had a huge effect. the other is if i were a democrat and i were looking forward i would say we were lucky this time. we dodged a bullet. we had barack obama. he's an incumbent president. he had no primary challenge. he started raising money in april of 2011. so he had a whole year before romney was really each beginning to think about the general election to raise and stockpile money. even so, he just spent the republicans to a draw because the republican super pacs raised and spent three times as much as the democratic supe